How Long Do Points Stay On Your Licence?

If you are judged to have committed a driving offence, any penalty points that you incur will remain on your licence for 4 or 11 years from either the date of the offence or conviction. If you accumulate 12 points or more within 3 years of each other, you may face a driving ban of 6 months or more.

In order to avoid or limit this ban, you will probably need to convince the court that a ban would bring you ‘exceptional hardship’. Our expert motor solicitors operate in Manchester, Cheshire, Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, Barnsley, Leeds, Huddersfield and Bradford, and have a 95% success rate of arguing against driving bans.

A conviction for the following offences will mean that your licence is endorsed with penalty points that will remain there for 4 years from the date of the offence:

Accident offences (endorsement codes A10, 20, 30)
Driving or attempting to drive while disqualified (BA10, 30)
Careless driving offences (CD10, 20, 30)
Faulty vehicle and vehicle use offences (CU10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 80)
Drink driving-related offences (DR40, 50, 60, 70)
In charge of a vehicle under the influence of drugs (D40, 90)
Insurance offences (IN10)
Licence offences (LC10, 20, 30, 40, 50)
Failure to observe roadway regulations (MW10, PC10, 20, 30)
Failure to observe traffic signals (TS10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70)
Driving over the speed limit (SP10, 20, 30, 40, 50)
Vehicle theft (UT50)

A conviction for the following offences will mean that your licence is endorsed with penalty points that will remain there for 4 years from the date of the conviction:

Causing death or injury by driving while disqualified (BA40, 60)
Causing death by careless driving or while not permitted to drive (CD40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90)
Dangerous driving offences (DD10, 40, 60, 80, 90)

A conviction for the following offences will mean that your licence is endorsed with penalty points that will remain there for 11 years from the date of the conviction:

Causing death by careless driving while under the influence (CD40, 50, 60, 70)
Drink driving offences (DR10, 20, 30, 31, 61)
Drug driving-related offences (DR10, 60, 80)

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I had never been in court previously, and the prospect was terrifying. I was stopped for Drink Driving, and was looking at a significant disqualification. The result in the circumstances was unbelievable, the solicitor was excellent in presenting my case and explaining the extenuating circumstances. I was overjoyed with the final result.
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Our success statistics

95% Success Rate From West Yorkshire, Manchester, Cheshire or London we have a 95% success rate in defending motorists who have failed to identify drivers on a s 172 Notice received by police. S 172 places burden upon registered keeper to disclose driver details, on occasions this may not be possible, we have used our experience and expertise in successfully defending these type of cases.
Exceptional Hardship, 95% If you are in danger of reaching 12 or more penalty points, then ordinarily you will under risk of losing your licence, unless you can establish exceptional Hardship. We have an outstanding record in presenting these applications before the Court and over the last 4 years we have not lost a single case. We are exceptional in presenting exceptional hardship Arguments.
Special Reasons Special reasons differ from exceptional hardship, as this is mitigation in respects of the offence and not offender. We have successfully presented hundreds of applications where the client has been guilty but not disqualified as we have successfully presented special reasons.
Drink Driving Trials, 87% We have successfully defended 81% of all drink driving cases we have dealt with, with a combination of our knowledge and expertise and the use of reliable experts in the majority of the cases we have been able to establish that the prosecution cases have been defective evidentially.
No Insurance Trial, 92% No Insurance is strict liability offence, you either have valid insurance or you do not, however in some circumstances you may have relied upon information from your employer or a third party In these cases we have successfully defended motorists, allowing them to continue with their daily lives.
Overall Trials, 81% We are specialist motoring Solicitors and our expertise extends to all areas of motoring Law. We have a very high overall success rate when defending motorists particularly when the case has gone to a Trial, from speeding, using mobile telephone, to Death by dangerous driving.

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